THURSDAY, MAR 4TH--SAILING THROUGH TAIWAN STRAIT

We just sailed past Taiwan where I guess they had an earthquake as we were passing by today. It is now 2:15pm and visibility outside is maybe 1/8 mile with dense fog. The ship is blowing it’s horn every minute or so to warn small ships without radar. I hope ours is working good. It was 72F this morning at 9am and has now dropped to 60F as we sail further north. The Captain said during his 9am PA that snow is now forecast for our Shanghai visit. We had a great time last night dining with Bjorn, the Chief Engineer. He will be flying back to Dallas when we arrive in Hong Kong so glad he shared some time with us before then. There were two other couples at the table: one from England and the other from Allen, TX which is close to Dallas. The 7 of us we having such a good time talking that we missed the show. The seven us are suppose to meet at 3pm up in the English couple’s suite, the Master Suite. Will be very interesting to see it. It is over 4 times bigger than our suite! We went to Sandra’s 10am lecture entitled, “Modern China”. So for the past 3+hours I have been down in the computer room called “club.com”, trying to figure out how to add a new photo album to my blog. I have no idea how I added the first one but finally bumbled and stumbled until I was successful. The albums are limited to 1000 pictures and already had 957 in the original one. I wanted to have it ready for the China pictures before arriving as will be very busy seeing as much as we can there. So there is one picture in “Part 2” now, one I took at Bjorn’s dinner party last night. Should be easier for you to view my new pictures now. I want to go work our later. Tonight we are dining in Prime 7, the steakhouse.